20 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

As you can see in the title, I’m here today to let you know a little about me beyond the blogging world. I was inspired to do this because I when I watch Youtube beauty influencers I’m fairly cautious about branching out to new channels until I watch one of their Q&A videos or 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Me. When I’m searching for a cool new makeup artist I don’t just want someone who does amazing work, I want someone that I feel like I know and that I could be friends with. So, if you’re new to my site and you’re wondering about the crazy chick who writes this blog, then keep on reading!

-I cannot eat in the dark. I just can’t. When my mom and I would go supply shopping for my parents business we would sometimes not eat until after dark and I would have the car light on so I could see every bite of my food. When theaters that served full meals came round I thought that was the coolest thing since sliced bread! Combining a dinner date with a movie cuts out the middle man. Brilliant, right?! Here’s the catch: You have to eat in the dark. Nope. I’m done.

-When I was a little girl, I used to think traffic lights were controlled by tiny monkeys that lived inside of them.

-In college I majored in Physics with the intent of getting my electrical engineering degree.

-I’ve never liked hot drinks. Even in the dead of winter hot chocolate or coffee were never my thing. I didn’t even start drinking coffee until last year when I discovered iced coffee.

-I was super into anime shows growing up: Dragonball Z, Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi Universe, Inuyasha, Pokemon, Mononoke Hime although I never watched Sailor Moon which is odd since it was one of the more popular shows.

-When I was in college I don’t think I ever once tipped a delivery driver. In my defense, I grew up in the country so having food delivered to your house was a brand new experience to me and I didn’t even know I was supposed to.

-I hate scary movies. I can’t even handle them. I can count on one hand how many I’ve seen and it’s because someone badgered me into watching it with them and I didn’t want to be a wet rag and not do it. I can’t even watch the previews because they horrify me so much!

-Once I busted my Grandpas lip when I tried to do a fake karate kick at him and my shoe flew off and hit him in the mouth. I nearly cried I felt so bad.

-Growing up I was nicknamed Ellie May because we had so many animals and I wanted to nurse every little baby I found back to health.

-I was a major tomboy until I was about 13 or 14.

-I had Shirley Temple curls when I was a toddler. Years of using heat tools have reduced me to loose curls. Boo! If I knew then what I know now.

-I used to worry about getting hit by falling prices at Wal-Mart because every time my dad went to there he would come home and tell me he got hit by falling prices. Do y’all remember those commercials?!

-I have 8 piercings, all in my ears.

-Fall is my favorite season and Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

-I love trashy television: Jersey Shore, Dating Naked, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, etc. Something about the sheer stupidity of it is so appealing and entertaining to me.

-I used to get irrationally angry when someone mispronounced a word, now it’s just a mild pet peeve because we all mispronounce stuff. It’s life. At least that’s what I tell myself when it bugs me and I know it’s a jerk move to be irritated about that.

-I got to sit on an orca at Sea World when I was four or five.

-I grew up at a lake where my parents owned a marina.

-My favorite thing in the world to do is being crafty!

-The first Harry Potter books came out when I was ten, so I was waiting eagerly, so eagerly, for an owl with my letter for Hogwarts on July 31 because I turned 11 on August 3 so I thought it was a beautiful coincidence. I was heartbroken when my owl didn’t come and it turned out I didn’t get to go to Hogwarts.

I hope you found this entertaining! If you have a blog I encourage you to do this. Leave a link in the comments and I’ll shoot over and read it! Even if you don’t have a blog, do a Facebook status with some random facts about yourself. I’d love to learn more about you!

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You would have made a kick ass electrical engineer! I can totally relate the to horror movie loathing! I can’t handle the previews either. I swear they’ll scar my soul!
Random facts about me:
1. Black straws are my absolute favorite, followed closely in second, are the Sonic straws. Wide straws are just all wrong unless they’re for a milkshake.
2. I tear up at weddings, every time, even the ones on TV. It always reminds me of my marriage & how grateful I am for my husband!
3. I don’t like cold three layered chocolate cake from restaurants, but let’s face it, cold cake is better than no cake.
4. In high school my plan was to go to college to be a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. I’m so glad that didn’t work out because I wouldn’t get to be home with my girls. Knowing me, I probably would have been married to my career instead!
5. I’m allergic to celery but I can eat cream of celery in a casserole.
6. My husband & I flipped a coin in the delivery room to name our oldest daughter, Kinsley. She was nearly a Natalie!
7. I’m 1/4 Japanese & am named after my paternal grandmother.
8. My biggest disease is people pleasing! I don’t want anyone to be unhappy, however my outspokenness generally contradict my disease!
9. I don’t believe all newborns are beautiful babies! Some just look like awful, tiny, old men aliens! I’m probably going to hell for that.
10. Deep down, I’m a conspiracy theorist & I keep an open mind to things that sound crazy & outlandish.